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Cyclone Chapala dumps years’ worth of rain in Yemen, causing extensive damage
Posted by Mashable: Andrew Freedman on November 4th, 2015
Mashable: The first hurricane ever to hit Yemen in recorded history arrived early Tuesday morning when Tropical Cyclone Chapala hit the city of Mukallah, bringing with it unprecedented flooding in an area already suffering from a war-related humanitarian crisis.
The storm may have already dumped a decades' worth of rainfall in some parts of this arid nation.
As the rare and intense storm moved closer to the mainland the day before, it killed one person and injured nine on the remote Yemeni island of...
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Defense Department to Congress: Global warming is a ‘present security threat’
Posted by Mashable: Andrew Freedman on July 30th, 2015
Mashable: For the first time, the U.S. Department of Defense has detailed what it views as its greatest challenges related to climate change.
In a report to Congress, the Defense Department said that global warming poses a "present security threat, not strictly a long-term risk."
See also: Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war
The report, delivered to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday and publicly released Wednesday, further stated the Defense Department is "already observing...
Global warming helped trigger Syria’s civil war
Posted by Mashable: Andrew Freedman on March 2nd, 2015
Mashable: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March 2.
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to attribute the drought in Syria in large part to global warming.
In doing so, it provides powerful evidence backing up the Pentagon and...